Tuesday 11 October 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL 11/10/22, The Greens on a roll splitting the ALP vote, Chris Hedges & The Puppet Masters, ALP's 6 in 26 years; Gillard,

 

 

 Innocent

Assange supporters formed human chains around Parliament in London and the Justice Dept. in D.C. on Saturday to support press freedom. CN broadcast the events live. Watch the replays here. London event from CN Live!, Cathy Vogan reporting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzBrWoNZAU Washington

Source: WATCH: Assange Protests at UK Parliament & DOJ – Consortium News

 

Guilty

 Apparently the Murdoch's want to define what is News and of "public interest" and Lachlan has instructed his legal team to argue the case that he is of no public interest.

Lawyers for Lachlan Murdoch are arguing a new public interest defence isn’t applicable for Crikey in the media mogul’s defamation case against the online publication.

Mr Murdoch is also claiming Crikey’s publisher Private Media, Kean and editor-in-chief Peter Fray were motivated by malice, predominantly acting to harm Mr Murdoch.

Private Media has applied to have that claim struck out.

Private Media denied the article defames Mr Murdoch as alleged and will argue it didn’t cause serious harm to him.

The independent outlet’s defence also includes implied freedom of political communication and failure to accept reasonable offer of amends.

The defence also states it believed the references to the Murdochs were “self-evidently hyperbolic” and “no one would read the words literally as suggesting that the Murdochs were guilty of criminal conspiracy”.

A nine-day trial is due to start on March 27.


Source: Crikey public interest defence opposed – Michael West

 Coming to and election near you and challenging the ALP the way the TEALs challenged the LNP

The Australian Greens won three new lower house seats and the Senate balance of power at the last election. By combining radical reforms and community activism, they are building a mass organization with the power to challenge the political establishment. Challe

Source: The Brisbane Greens Are Building a Mass Party With Unashamedly Left-Wing Politics

 

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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.

Source: Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters – scheerpost.com

 Gillard’s story is a reminder that while progressive forces command the social and cultural discourse, the electoral arithmetic often washes out differently. Within a year of ”the speech”,  Abbott was prime minister. Although his time in the sun would be brief, the fact remains that Australia has only had six years of Labor in the past 26 years.

The 10th anniversary of Julia Gillard’s so-called misogyny speech is a reminder of what might have been. Chiefly, the loss of a potentially great Australian leader.

The speech itself resonated around Australia and the world. The Macquarie Dictionary even redefined the word misogyny on the back of it. But beyond the commemorative songs, seminars, studies and symposiums lies the story of the squandered opportunities of the most recent former Labor government.

Maybe things will work out better for Anthony Albanese. After all, he had a front-row seat when Labor burned its two leading lights and opened the door for nine years of generally poor Coalition government. Meanwhile the Gillard story is a reminder of how Labor often wins the culture wars and loses the political ones.

But it is also apparent in 2022 that myths are being bedded down into the authorised record. History as written by the rhetoricians. Time has blurred the factors behind Gillard’s rise and fall.

Source: A decade from Big M: Gillard and the might-have-beens – Michael West

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